Internship at the regional office for the Middle East and North Africa of the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR Beirut)

dc.contributor.advisorMonin, Pascal
dc.contributor.authorBouhya, Adil
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-06T14:59:48Z
dc.date.available2017-12-06T14:59:48Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionSecond semester University: Saint Joseph University, Lebanonen_US
dc.descriptionInternship report: Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
dc.description.abstractI contacted my internship at the Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) during the period of May and June. This report tackles mainly how I contributed to the work of the office, focusing on my participation on the daily activities Through five main tasks: communication, treaty bodies monitoring, gender, rule of law, Human rights defenders, the Syria monitoring. In carrying out these tasks, My legal background was particularly of an imminent help in conducting legal researches related to the Human Rights situation in the MENA region. This situation is analyzed through a deep study of human rights defendant’s trials and to what extent they comply with international standards of fair trial. The report also includes a study about the laws of violence against women in Arab countries and their compliance with international standards. One more task that the report is mentioning is my contribution to preparing a curricula for judges in the framework of trainings aiming to promote Human Rights and democracy. Last but not least, I also include a paper on Democracy, Rule of law and the right to a fair trial. I based my analysis on Lebanon as a case study. My motivation behind this paper, is to be able to shed some light on the repercussions of the governance system on the judiciary branch. Therefore, explaining how it affects human rights, and especially the right to a fair trial. This paper is an attempt to materialize the knowledge acquainted during the first semester, in the topic of consociational democracy in Lebanon.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/20.500.11825/769
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25330/1650
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDEMA theses/internship report 2015/2016;
dc.subjectMiddle Easten_US
dc.subjectNorth Africaen_US
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectUnited Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rightsen_US
dc.subjectmonitoringen_US
dc.subjectSyriaen_US
dc.subjectdomestic violenceen_US
dc.subjectSerbiaen_US
dc.subjectIraqen_US
dc.subjectrule of lawen_US
dc.subjectfair trialen_US
dc.subjectLebanonen_US
dc.titleInternship at the regional office for the Middle East and North Africa of the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR Beirut)en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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